JON TURNER, ERIC LYNCH, JON VAN FLEET - WINNING POKER TOURNAMENTS ONE HAND AT A TIME
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Intermediate, advanced, and expert players. Particularly those looking to move up to bigger MTT's
'Winning Poker Tournaments one hand at a time' belongs to the new crowd of poker books breaking away from the tradition of the past few decades. Rather than focus on repeating tried and tested strategies, rehashing other people's advice, these books present new ideas from the new generation of online poker pro's.
This particular book has 3 co-authors; Eric 'Rizen' Lynch, Jon 'PearlJammer' Turner, and Jon 'Apestyles' Van Fleet, and between them they have tournament winnings of over 6 million $US, and a huge collective experience of online poker tournaments.
The format of the book is unusual and follows in the footstep of Gus Hansen's 'Every Hand Revealed'. There are 194 sections, each one corresponding to the analysis of one hand drawn from the actual tournament history of one of the authors. Within each section, the authors explain in great details their thought and decision making process throughout the hand.
The book focuses on tournament play before the bubble, mainly with full tables. Each author writes well, and has a chapter to himself, where they discuss around 50 of their own tournament hands in detail. They discuss their decisions, and reasons behind them, at every stage.
Each player also has a slightly different style, which is refreshing as it means that although the book concentrates on sound principles, there isn’t always only one way to play a hand, a point which many poker books gloss over.
This is further highlighted by the 4th section of the book, where all three authors comment on hands played by the books editor, Matthew Hilger, in a discussion format. Again a lot of subjects are covered in this section, in good depth, and from a variety angles.
This stands head and shoulders above a lot of the newer poker books on the market, but does assume you already have a good idea of what you are doing, and isn't really suitable for beginners.
The book is aimed at playing against other good players, and some of the moves and plays won't work anywhere near as well at lower level MTT's, where nobody respects a raise, but as long as you take that into consideration it can be applied to all levels. Well written, informative, and innovative, even expert MTT players will gain something from this book.
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